Focus on progress

How many times have you started a project and you were obsessed with
getting every detail perfect? I´ve done this too but, focusing on perfection
only creates anxiety and slow our productivity and progress.

From what I´ve seen progress leads to happiness, perfection leads to
anxiety. As tony Robbins says, “Progress equals happiness”. Just think about
how you feel when you realize you are making progress in a project or whatever
you are doing? You feel accomplished, your self-confidence increases, and you
feel happy.

This may be true or false for you but in most cases, perfection get us
stuck in some little detail and stop our results while progress let us keep
going and improving along the way.

When we focus on progress our goal is to make the best, we can with what
we got at that time, and this includes time, skills, knowledge, resources,
equipment. And you are committed to improving every single day, being better
every day, learning something knew or improving skills.

Our ultimate goal is to keep learning, keep growing and keep improving,
the moment we stop making progress we start losing that feeling of achievement
and if we let this feeling run our days and life for a long period of time it
can lead to mental problems.

When you focus on perfection and if you get obsessed with it you can
develop a negative mindset, wanting perfection on every single detail on
everything you do is really hard to achieve, more often than you not you won´t
be satisfied with the results, it will take you a long time, hard work and
effort until you feel are satisfied and think the result is perfect. If you are
not satisfied with the result you can get to a point where you don´t feel
worthy or capable which leads to a negative and limiting mindset.

Progress on the other hand focuses on doing the best you can with what
you know and what you have at that moment knowing that you can always improve,
knowing that you can get better every single day by learning new skills or
improving the ones you already know and also by getting more or better
equipment or tools when you can. It´s about making sure you did your best and
you give your all and feeling satisfied with your result. Realizing it was the
best you could do but, tomorrow you can do better.

Some steps you can take today to start focusing on progress and stop
chasing perfection are:

1.- Realize and accept that chasing perfection is almost impossible, you
won´t feel satisfied and it will leave you feeling bad

2.- Think about doing the best you can with what you have

3.- Always keep in mind that you can improve every single day, learn new
skills or improve the ones you already know

4.- Take does new or improved skills and apply them to help you get
better results every day

5.- Focus on how you feel when you see you are making progress.

When you are aware of your feelings, your emotions is easier to make a
change, most of us do not want to feel bad about ourselves, we want to feel
uplifting emotions and happiness is one of them, the feeling of accomplishment
is another one that makes us feel worthy and capable, when you focus on
progress and see it make sure that you are aware of your feelings and enjoy
them, this keeps you in the right track wanting more so you stay on that
progress search.

Let me know by leaving a comment on Facebook and Twitter if you tend to
focus on perfection over progress and what has been your result.

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